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ArmyAnduril Successfully Flight Testing Barracuda Missile Variant For Army Program
Anduril Industries in May successfully completed flight tests of the munitions variant of its Barracuda-100 autonomous air vehicle under an Army testbed program aimed at proving out multiple ranges, missile […]
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Business/FinancialFirestorm Labs Raises $47 Million With Help From Lockheed, Booz Allen To Scale Manufacturing
Firestorm Labs, which has developed and expeditionary manufacturing capability for “point-of-need production” for drones and their parts, has raised $47 million in a Series A round that will be put […]
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CongressHASC Backs Army’s ATI Plans, While NDAA Draft Directs More Details On Proposed Cuts
While the House Armed Services Committee’s defense policy bill draft backs most of the Army’s divestments as part of its new transformation plan, the legislation directs the service to provide […]
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SpaceHASC Bill Would Make TacSRT a ‘Program of Record’
The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2026 defense bill would require the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to establish a Title 10 requirement for the tactical, surveillance, […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyStartup Developing Electromagnetic Launch System For Hypersonic Testing Nabs Seed Funding
Auriga Space has raised $4.6 million in a seed round and garnered $1.4 million in additional U.S. government funding to accelerate the development of an electromagnetic launch platform for “lab-scale […]
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Air ForceAccelerate HACM Production Ramp, HASC Advises USAF
The U.S. Air Force plan to field a limited number of RTX [RTX] Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missiles (HACM) by 2028 has led to a stated concern by the House Armed […]
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Nuclear ModernizationInitial Operational Capability By End of Fiscal 2033 for Sentinel, SASC Says
House and Senate defense authorizers would prohibit a reduction in U.S. ICBMs below 400, and the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) sets a date of fiscal 2033 for initial operational […]